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In the course of the session on the Watson Institute for Worldwide and Public Affairs at Brown College in the USA, a Sikh pupil questioned Rahul Gandhi over the Congress get together’s function within the violence that adopted the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The scholar referred to the killing of over 3,000 Sikhs and highlighted longstanding accusations of complicity towards a number of Congress leaders.
“You create a concern amongst Sikhs about what BJP would appear like… We wish freedom of expression, which has not been allowed beneath the Congress Social gathering previously,” the coed questioned Gandhi over his earlier remarks on non secular freedom beneath BJP rule.
“You haven’t reconciled with the Sikhs,” a younger man tells Rahul Gandhi to his face, reminding him of the unfounded fear-mongering he engaged in throughout his final go to to the US.
It’s fairly unprecedented that Rahul Gandhi is now being ridiculed not simply in India, however across the… pic.twitter.com/rml7JsDYKI
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) May 3, 2025
Reacting to the coed’s query, Gandhi reiterated his robust condemnation of the 1984 riots and acknowledged, “I’ve publicly acknowledged that what occurred within the 80s was mistaken. I’ve been to the Golden Temple a number of instances. I’ve extraordinarily good relationships with the Sikh neighborhood in India.”
“So far as the errors of the Congress Social gathering are involved, plenty of these occurred after I was not there, however I’m more than pleased to take duty for all the pieces the Congress get together has ever completed mistaken in its historical past,” Hindustan time reported.
Responding to the incident, senior BJP chief Amit Malviya acknowledged that the Sikh man “reminded Rahul Gandhi of the baseless fear-mongering he indulged in throughout his earlier go to to the US.” He described the second as “unprecedented” and claimed that Gandhi is now being “mocked not solely in India however globally.”
